Kaylee in Budapest: LOVING HUNGARY~~

The Mecseriék!

View from the Lion Bridge

Sister Jeppson & I with the Ábrokék! Kira served with my trainer, so it has been fun serving around her in her hometown! Ábrok is our ward missionary leader

Hey folks! This week has been another great week here in Hungary!

This week Sister Jeppson and I had the opportunity to go on splits with the Sister Training Leaders up in Buda! They were both so sweet, and missionaries that I look up to! Sister Hafen and I had the chance to go teach a less active and for the first time in forever she had actually read the scriptures! It was super neat! And when we invited her to conference she accepted the invitation! And then we got to go tracting for a couple of hours, and we met so many sweet people! There was an elderly woman who answered the door and said she knew us. We thought that she was going to get mad at us and tell us everything that is wrong with mormons, but when we asked her what she had heard/ knew about us she said only the best! She said she had met some missionaries like 20 years ago when they tracted into her, and they were so sweet and she has always loved the missionaries since! She wasnt interested in learning more, but just that simple knocking on her door 20 years ago gave the missionaries a good reputation in her eyes and she will now share that with other people when our church's name is brought up. And if nothing else, we were able to bring a smile to her face, which is a great form of service! We may not always see it, but looking at the big picture just those little things make such a difference! Success may not always seem so evident, but in the end we determine ourselves what we consider success, so it is up to us to make each day a success! The little things do matter!

I loved having General Conference this past weekend, I learned alot! I seriously love conference so much! We were only able to watch the Sautrday sessions this week, but it had alot of the answers that I have been needing to hear, and a lot of reassurances of the things that I already knew and have been trying to apply in my life! It reminded me that missionary work is a very unselfish thing and if we want to be the best missionaries we can be we have to forget about ourselves. Yes, we do need to have our testimony super strong and be in that spiritual position to help other people, but the best way to be happy is truly to get lost in the service of our fellow beings, especially with such a wonderful opportunity as it is to share the gospel with others, that is the best kind of service that we can ever do!